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National Ramah Commission Inc

The national ramah commission (nrc) is the central coordinating, convening, and catalyzing body of the ramah camping movement.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$222k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$3.7MEducation$641kReligion$296kYouth Development$219kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,243,570, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,494,084 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,250,514 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $43k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
$152,706
Median grant
7
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA$222,321
CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND$205,416
CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS$187,791
CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN$160,598
CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES$152,706
CAMP RAMAH DAROM$146,883
RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES$67,440
CAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$57,505
RAMAH DAY CAMP$42,910
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND: $249k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $210k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $119k → 22%CAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $75k → 13%CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA: $222k → 14%ALL OTHER (5000): $72k → 17%CAMP RAMAH DAROM: $197k → 8%RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $97k → 12%CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN: $230k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND: $205k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $188k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $111k → 22%CAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $58k → 13%CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA: $132k → 14%ALL OTHER (5000): $70k → 17%CAMP RAMAH DAROM: $147k → 8%CAMP RAMAH OUTDOOR ADVENTURE (ROCKIES): $73k → 12%RAMAH DAY CAMP: $172k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND: $128k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $122k → 7%camp ramah in the poconos: $53k → 22%CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA: $114k → 14%CAMP RAMAH DAROM: $116k → 8%RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $70k → 12%CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN: $161k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND: $116k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $81k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA: $71k → 14%CAMP RAMAH DAROM: $81k → 8%RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $67k → 12%CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN: $108k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND: $85k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA: $68k → 14%CAMP RAMAH DAROM: $77k → 8%RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $54k → 12%CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN: $73k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND: $82k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA: $66k → 14%camp ramah darom: $53k → 8%CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES: $153k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND: $60k → 7%CAMP RAMAH DAROM: $52k → 8%CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES: $137k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND: $54k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES: $135k → 7%CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN: $104k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN: $75k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN: $60k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $1.1M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$835k · 79% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMMING AND TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$226k · 21% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMMING AND TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENTS

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 11 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
0

Total granted

$6.2M
$0

Still filing today

45%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +99%
  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $742k · revenue +59%
  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $589k · revenue +3%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    5/5
    Grantees still filing
    5/5
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN INC: $858,439 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN INCRAMAH DAROM INC: $787,631 · OtherRAMAH DAROM INCCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $742,395 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INCCAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC: $588,534 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INCJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $553,518 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICARAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $477,369 · OtherRAMAH IN THE ROCKIESRAMAH DAY CAMP INC: $262,196 · OtherRAMAH DAY CAMP INC+1 more: $141,958 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC: $1,043,110 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INCCAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $508,582 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOSCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $265,438 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Other$4,412,040Recreation & Sports$1,817,130

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC: $1,043,110 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $742,395 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC: $588,534 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $508,582 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $265,438 over 8y, 4.2% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
    • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
    • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
    • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS ↗
    • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗

    Co-funders

    Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

    Foundation for Jewish Camp IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization National Ramah Commission Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Ramah Commission Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24
    no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      2get no government money at all
      1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY20–24
      How this is measured
      Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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